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New Deal Roosevelt’s plan for getting out of the Depression.
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The Three R’s Relief-implies short term attention Recovery-implies longer term “healing” Reform-implies reconstruction
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Major Goal and Issues Recirculation of money in the economy Pump Priming Banks Farms Employment Stock Market
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Cartoons
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Banks Declared a Bank Holiday Emergency Banking Relief Act 1933 Glass-Stegall Banking Act
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Cartoons
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Farms Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) Farm Credit Administration (FCA)
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Employment Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) Home Owner’s Loan Corporation (HOLC)
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Employment Continued… Civil Works Administration (CWA) Public Works Administration (PWA) Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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Employment Continued… Social Security Act 1935 National Industry Recovery Act 1933 (NIRA) National Recovery Administration (NRA) Wagner Act
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Cartoons
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Stock Market Federal Securities Act 1933 Securities and Exchange Commission
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Other Reciprocal Trade Agreement Court Packing
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Criticism Pampered Labor Stifled private enterprise Creeping socialism FDR was a one man “super-government” Bullied Congress and Courts Did NOT cure the Depression Add bureaucratic paperwork
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Women Lower pay Males received preferences for jobs Long Hours
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African Americans Not offered professional jobs or skilled jobs Lower pay Job Discrimination
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New Deal Does TOO Much? TVA considered socialist Revenue Act Social Securty Act
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New Deal Does NOT Do Enough? Believed entire economic system needed to be reformed Believed in Nationalization
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